Lisbon – First Impressions

September 16, 2016

Lisbon – First Impressions

I’ve never been to Portugal before, but Lisbon is just about the perfect city to live in for a short while. It’s everything from the weather conditions over the vino verde and the beautiful, historic center that makes it so wonderful. Especially from a photographic perspective, Lisbon’t got so much to offer. Even though I’m still fairly uneducated about the manual settings in my camera, I feel I’m drawn to take beautiful pictures in every other street I walk through. Especially the lighting is somehow different to what I’m used to in Zurich. Golden hours are even warmer and the earthy tones of the buildings make a perfect scene.

Apart from the little disaster regarding my search for a room, Lisbon’s treated me really well so far. I’ve already met a bunch of interesting people, which I thought would be more difficult, since Erasmus often equals a bunch of exchange students going on pub crawls while the local students remain amongst themselves. I really met some gorgeous people so far and Lisbon’s just about the right place to have a good time and enjoy life. Most importantly, you can have decent wine or beer for 1 euro and eat delicious fish for about 10.

More details about my life here in Lisbon will follow in my next posts, so stay tuned!